scholarly journals A new genus and species of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) from South America feeding on Ceroplastes wax scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae), and status of the genus Ortalidina as a chamaemyiid

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3342 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
STEPHEN D. GAIMARI

A new genus and species of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) is described and illustrated, namelyChamaeleucopis, gen. nov. (type species Chamaeleucopis trevas, sp. nov.), a predator of Ceroplastes wax scales on guavafrom Brazil. In addition, the previously unrecognized genus Ortalidina Blanchard 1852 (type species Ortalidina cellularisBlanchard 1852), mainly from the Neotropics, is recognized as a chamaemyiid, and is the senior synonym of ToropameciaCogan 1978, syn. nov. (type species Acrometopia punctata Coquillett 1902). The species Toropamecia grossa Cogan1978, syn. nov., is synonymized under Ortalidina cellularis. All species therein become new combinations withinOrtalidina, including (in their original combinations) Acrometopa australis Malloch 1933, comb. nov., Acrometopiamaculata Coquillett 1902, comb. nov., Acrometopia punctata Coquillett, comb. nov., Toropamecia apaxa Cogan 1978,comb. nov., Toropamecia caribbea Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia hendeli Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropameciahyalipennis Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia jujuyensis Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia longipennis Cogan1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia macalpinei Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia multipunctata Cogan 1978, comb. nov.,Toropamecia nigripalpis Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia reducta Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia smithiCogan 1978, comb. nov., Toropamecia veenota Cogan 1978, comb. nov., Trigonometopus reticulatus Johnson 1913, comb. nov. A habitus photo of the primary type for each species of Ortalidina is provided.

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4938 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
CESARE BELLO’ ◽  
ENZO COLONNELLI ◽  
LEONARDO FORBICIONI ◽  
GIUSEPPE OSELLA ◽  
ENRICO RUZZIER

A new genus of Entiminae, an endogean weevil of the tribe Otiorhynchini, Giavarhynchus Bellò, Osella & Ruzzier, gen. n., and its type species Giavarhynchus amicorum Bellò, Osella & Ruzzier, sp. n. are described. The new taxon is readily distinguished from all other members of the tribe due to the unique combination of lack of eyes, elongate rostrum with a ventral transverse furrow and excised lateral margins located at apical third, punctation of pronotum of two distinct sizes arranged in a distinctive pattern, interval 7 of elytra protruding from base of pronotum and crenulate basally, metafemora bearing a spine-like tooth much larger than that of pro- and mesofemora, female tibiae granulate on inner margin, bisinuous mesotibiae. The following synonymy is proposed: Nematocerus Reiche, 1849 (= Cyrtozemia Pascoe, 1872, syn. n.; = Holcorhinosoma Voss, 1939, syn. n.). New combinations are: Nematocerus cognatus (Marshall, 1916), comb. n.; Nematocerus dispar (Pascoe, 1872), comb. n.; Nematocerus pilipes (Morimoto, 2015), comb. n., all from Cyrtozemia; Nematocerus subtuberculatus (Voss, 1939), comb. n. from Holcorhinosoma. New tribal placement is: Pseudocratopus Hustache, 1921 from Otiorhynchini to Peritelini. New subgeneric placement is that of Otiorhynchus deceptorius Białooki, Germann & Pelletier, 2017 and of Otiorhynchus incisirostris Białooki, Germann & Pelletier, 2017 from Otiorhynchus (Lixorrhynchus) Reitter, 1914 to Otiorhynchus (Aranihus) Reitter, 1912. 


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 397 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
TAIMY CANTILLO ◽  
DAVI AUGUSTO CARNEIRO DE ALMEIDA ◽  
JOSIANE SANTANA MONTEIRO ◽  
LUÍS F.P. GUSMÃO

In this study, Pararhexoacrodictys gen. nov., with Pa. catolensis as the type species is described and compared with morphologically similar Acrodictys-like genera. The new genus is phenotypically similar to both Rhexoacrodictys and Pseudoacrodictys but separated by other morphological characters. Pa. minima sp. nov. and two combinations, Pa. balansae and Pa. magnicornuata, are introduced, and new records of Pseudoacrodictys and Shrungabeeja are also registered for South America and the Neotropics.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4567 (3) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
MARIUS S. WASBAUER ◽  
LYNN S. KIMSEY

Pompiliodon gen. nov. and its type species Pompiliodon katina sp. nov. are described and illustrated. The relationships to related genera (Priochilus Banks, 1944 and Balboana Banks, 1925) are discussed. 


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 484 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-112
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO E. VILLARROEL ◽  
KORA MENEGOZ ◽  
NICOLÁS LAVANDERO

Rayenia, a new monotypic genus assigned here to the Escalloniaceae, is provided with a description of the type species Rayenia malalcurensis, endemic to San Fabián de Alico, Ñuble Region, Central Chile. Molecular phylogenetics and morphological data support its placement in a new genus, separated from its sister taxon Tribeles australis. A detailed description, distribution map, insights about its ecology, conservation status and a key to the genera of Escalloniaceae in South America are given.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4623 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEDRO R. BARTHOLOMAY ◽  
KEVIN A. WILLIAMS ◽  
ROBERTO. A. CAMBRA ◽  
MÁRCIO L. OLIVEIRA

Nine species of the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead have been recorded from South America. One additional species, D. campogrande Manley & Pitts was erroneously recorded from Mexico but is from Brazil, and another species, D. colorado Cambra, Williams & Quintero was recently discovered in Colombia. Four of these nine Dasymutilla belong to a new genus, Quwitilla Williams, Bartholomay & Cambra, gen. nov., which includes: Q. peruviana (Suárez), comb. nov. (and its newly recognized female D. homochroma Suárez, syn. nov.; Q. bellatrix (Manley & Pitts), comb. nov. (based on female only); and Q. blattoserica (Kohl) comb. nov. (type species, already known from both sexes). Two others are actually synonyms of previously recognized Traumatomutilla André species: Dasymutilla brazilia Manley & Pitts, syn. nov. is a junior synonym of T. oculifera (Smith), and D. campogrande, syn. nov. is a junior synonym of T. inermis (Klug). One species is transferred out of Dasymutilla: Xystromutilla aequatorialis (André), comb. nov. Finally, updates and comments are provided on the distribution of D. araneoides (Smith), D. colorado, D. paradoxa (Gerstaecker), and D. pulchra (Smith), the only four South American species remaining in the genus Dasymutilla. 


1963 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Charles C. Porter

In my work on the Chilean Mesostenini it early became evident that the Cryptus cyanipennis of Brullé, one of the most striking and easily recognizable of the described mesostenines of temperate South America, is sufficiently distinct from other known forms to deserve separate generic status. I therefore give below a description of this new genus together with a brief discussion of its affinities and a redescription of the type species.


2000 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID M. MARTILL ◽  
EBERHARD FREY ◽  
GUILLERMO CHONG DIAZ ◽  
C. M. BELL

A fragmentary specimen of pterosaur originally assigned to the genus Pterodaustro Bonaparte, 1970 is reassessed. The presence of a sagittal dorsal cranial crest on a fragment of nasopreorbital arcade with linear vertical trabeculae and the occurrence of alveolar protuberances on the os dentale indicate the new specimen has similarities with crested pterodactyloid pterosaurs of the family Ctenochasmatidae, and with members of the Dsungaripteridae. The presence of alveolar protuberances allows us to assign the specimen to the Dsungaripteridae. It forms the basis of a new genus and species, Domeykodactylus ceciliae.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER B. HEENAN ◽  
ROB D. SMISSEN

The generic taxonomy of the Nothofagaceae is revised. We present a new phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters and map these characters onto a recently published phylogenetic tree obtained from DNA sequence data. Results of these and previous analyses strongly support the monophyly of four clades of Nothofagaceae that are currently treated as subgenera of Nothofagus. The four clades of Nothofagaceae are robust and well-supported, with deep stem divergences, have evolutionary equivalence with other genera of Fagales, and can be circumscribed with morphological characters. We argue that these morphological and molecular differences are sufficient for the four clades of Nothofagaceae to be recognised at the primary rank of genus, and that this classification will be more informative and efficient than the currently circumscribed Nothofagus with four subgenera.        Nothofagus is recircumscribed to include five species from southern South America, Lophozonia and Trisyngyne are reinstated, and the new genus Fuscospora is described. Fuscospora and Lophozonia, with six and seven species respectively, occur in New Zealand, southern South America and Australia. Trisyngyne comprises 25 species from New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. New combinations are provided where necessary in each of these genera.


Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3616 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. VIRAKTAMATH ◽  
ANA CLARA GONÇALVES

Studies on the Agalliini leafhoppers collected from the Terrestrial Arthropods of Madagascar inventory project of the Cal-ifornia Academy of Sciences, resulted in the discovery of one new genus Agallidwipa gen. nov. (type-species: A. biramosa sp. nov.) with three new species, A. biramosa sp. nov., A. bispinosa sp. nov. and A. webbi sp. nov. and three new species of the genus Igerna Kirkaldy, I. delta sp. nov., I. flavocosta sp. nov. and I. malagasica sp. nov. Two new combinations proposed are Agallidwipa pauliana (Evans) comb. nov. (from genus Agalliana Oman) and Igerna neosa (Webb) comb. nov. (from genus Stonasla White), a species previously recorded from Aldabra Islands. A previous record of Igerna bi-maculicollis (Stål) from Madagascar is shown most likely to be a case of misidentification. All the taxa are described and illustrated. Keys to species of Agalliini from Madagascar are included along with notes on the distinction between Agal-liana and Agallidwipa.


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